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Lot Essay
The present papyrus is dedicated in hieratic to 'Ta-per-Usir, Justified, born of Ta-nehemes, Justified'. The word 'Usir' is the Egyptian cursive spelling of Osiris, god of the underworld.
The section preserved is a form of the solar hymn of Chapter 15 of the Book of the Dead. The vignettes show a solar barque with the sun gods, below a sun rises between two standards symbolizing east and west, being received by two goddesses, probably Isis and Nephthys. Underneath, the setting sun is being adored by two Ba-birds and eight baboons. On the lower register a priest stands before an offering table and two seated figures. Cf., T. G. Allen, The Egyptian Book of the Dead Documents in the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago, Chicago, 1960, p. 82, and the vignettes on pl. LV and S. H. d'Auria et al., Mummies and Magic, the Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1988, pp. 187-189, no. 134.
The section preserved is a form of the solar hymn of Chapter 15 of the Book of the Dead. The vignettes show a solar barque with the sun gods, below a sun rises between two standards symbolizing east and west, being received by two goddesses, probably Isis and Nephthys. Underneath, the setting sun is being adored by two Ba-birds and eight baboons. On the lower register a priest stands before an offering table and two seated figures. Cf., T. G. Allen, The Egyptian Book of the Dead Documents in the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago, Chicago, 1960, p. 82, and the vignettes on pl. LV and S. H. d'Auria et al., Mummies and Magic, the Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1988, pp. 187-189, no. 134.